The Blissful Arrival of Spring

Spring is upon us – it officially begins tomorrow, March 20. Though the weather has been quite springlike for some time now.

One of the themes of spring is cleaning or purification. Often we do this with our doors and windows – the ol’ spring cleaning.

Since long the yogis have been doing this with the mind as well, varnarghyadan, or offering colors of the mind. That means all those mental tendencies that have been disturbing and distracting you should be offered, thereby making the mind clean.

Here is a short yogic song (PS #104) about spring translated from original Bengali:

In the beats of dance, in the rhythm of dance,
Spring comes, it comes
The fog-shrouded trees glitter with light
They smile with the new flowers and leaves
Covering the earth’s body with ornaments of wildflowers
Spreading her disheveled hair all over the sky
Spring rushes in the rhythm of the purvasha dance
Adorning nature with with beauty in this month of sweetness
Spring comes, it comes
Waves of sea breeze waft aloft
The warm ocean laughs and smiles
And all the departed charms return again
The One who is the source of this sweetness and splendour
My mind blissfully floats in thoughts of the Divine
Spring comes, it comes

A happy and blissful spring to all!!